Lloyd's Barber Shop, Heritage barbershop in Queensland, Australia

Lloyd's Barber Shop is a former barber shop at 80 Churchill Street, Childers, now occupied by a jeweller. It is one of five single-storey masonry shops built in 1902 adjoining the Palace Hotel, with a corrugated iron roof behind a parapet, a classical revival pediment and a balustraded parapet topped by urns. The original shopfront sits under an ogee-profile corrugated iron awning on posts, and the interior is lit by a lantern in the roof.

Built in 1902 for Alfred Gorrie to a design by Bundaberg architect F H Faircloth, the shop replaced timber premises destroyed in the fire of 23 March 1902 that swept the south side of Churchill Street. It was occupied by barber William Lloyd, whose own shop had burned down, and was leased to another hairdresser in 1930. It was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.

The building is no longer a barbershop: it now houses a jeweller, and for many years it operated as a newsagency run by Earle and June Robinson, who bought it in 1976 and subdivided the row so each shop had its own title. The name Lloyd's Barber Shop recalls hairdresser William Lloyd, whose premises burned in the 1902 fire and who then leased this shop.

The former barber shop at 80 Churchill Street is now a jeweller and not open for haircuts. It stands in a row of five single-storey shops on the south side of Churchill Street, adjoining the Palace Hotel. Look up at the street front for the ogee-profile corrugated iron awning on posts; the cast iron valance is gone.

The building is no longer a barbershop: it now houses a jeweller, and was long used as a newsagency. Its interior is lit by a lantern set into the roof and appears to have changed little. The shopfront is much as original, though the cast iron valance on the ogee awning is gone.